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We’ve almost made it. The Oscars, the main event is on Sunday, ending the awards season in a brilliance of gold at the Dolby Theater. During the course of SSN’s Phase 2 of coverage, we’ve interviewed countless nominees. Along with hearing about their reaction to being nominated, some nominees spoke...

The official countdown to Oscar day has begun, and we’re wrapping things up at SSN by bringing you a “Best Of” sampling from Phase 2 of our awards season coverage. We’ve brought you predictions for the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, and the DGA Awards, as well as analysis and interviews with the writers,...

Filmmaker Rory Kennedy (the youngest child of Ethel and Senator Robert F. Kennedy) turned her camera on the final days of the Vietnam War in her Oscar-nominated documentary, Last Days in Vietnam. The film explores the messy final hours as the U.S. quickly exited South Vietnam in 1975 as Communist forces...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic, Selma, is nominated for five Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature, Director, Cinematographer, and Actor and Actress for David Oyelowo and Carmen Ejogo, for their respective portrayals of King and his wife Coretta Scott King.
The Independent Spirit Awards...

As a big-time agent, studio head, and now Oscar-nominated producer, John Lesher has had a varied Hollywood career. And through it all, he’s worked with Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárittu. Lesher was Iñárittu agent when the director broke through with Amores Perros (2000). When Lesher...

Sometimes, when a movie hits a certain chord with the viewing audience, not only does it clean up at the box office, it starts a national conversation as well. American Sniper is just such a phenomenon, a movie that has moved audiences to the tune of almost $300 million in domestic grosses, and brought...

What began as a grand experiment for Richard Linklater 14 years ago has ended in a year-long victory lap for the cinematic triumph that is Boyhood. Following much acclaim, many critics’ prizes, three Golden Globes, and a few BAFTAs, the film has now been nominated for six Academy Awards and is considered...

It might be hard to believe, but Ethan Hawke’s film career has now spanned 30 years. That’s a long time by any stretch, but when you consider that he’s 44 years old, it takes on added meaning. It’s for that reason, having appeared on-screen several times as a teenager in movies like Explorers,...

When Argentine writer/director Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) premiered at Cannes last May, it was immediately heralded as “marvelous satire,” “wickedly delightful,” and “riotously funny.” Produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Agustin, the darkly humorous film is made...

Norwegian director Morten Tyldum was not a well-known entity on this side of the Atlantic when the producers of The Imitation Game hired him, but he certainly is now. After making three well-regarded films in his native country, his first English-language movie has earned the filmmaker both DGA and Oscar...